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Report on Iran’s Nuclear Program Stokes Alarm – and Disagreement Over How to Respond

A picture taken on November 10, 2019, shows an Iranian flag in Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, during an official ceremony to kick-start works on a second reactor at the facility. – Bushehr is Iran’s only nuclear power station and is currently running on imported fuel from Russia that is closely monitored by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Posted: March 21st, 2024

By Hollie McKay

Hollie McKay is a writer, war crimes investigator, and the author of “Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield.” (Jocko Publishing/Di Angelo Publications 2021). She was an investigative and international affairs/war correspondent for Fox News Digital for over fourteen years, where she focused on war, terrorism, and crimes against humanity.

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING – Iran’s nuclear ambitions have been a diplomatic concern for decades, but recent revelations by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), compounded by Iran’s role in the protracted conflict in Gaza, have heightened alarm over the regime’s progress toward building a nuclear weapons arsenal.

The latest IAEA report found that Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium has grown precipitously, that the agency’s ability to monitor the program has been severely compromised, and experts say that over the past several years the time Iran would need to create weapons-grade uranium – the key ingredient in a nuclear bomb – has shrunk. 

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